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...This would not have been news in the era of mass-market TV 10, 20 or 30 years ago, when white and black Americans alike would expend a few brain cells following the high jinks of Fred Sanford, the Fresh Prince and Steve Urkel. But in the mid-'90s, as the new "netlets" UPN and the WB added African-American sitcoms to draw an audience eager to see people on TV who looked like them, the big networks went even whiter. White folks watch Friends, and black folks watch Steve Harvey, so held the new wisdom, and never their channel...
...Dragonfly, you may be scratching your head about a few things, but there’s one thing you won’t be able to deny: Kevin Costner is good at what he does, and this does not involve acting well. Since his glory days of the early 90s, when he starred in blockbuster after blockbuster (Dances With Wolves, Field of Dreams and Robin Hood: Prince of Theives), he has accepted many a dismal script and acted poorly in many a mediocre movie. But it is who wins the financial endgame that matters and in the case of Dragonfly...
...black-rimmed glasses than a Buddy Holly look-alike contest, one wouldn’t expect a band to rock, but that’s exactly what it did. Playing their unique brand of “Geek Rock” made popular in the early ’90s, Weezer swept the adoring fans off their feet and bodysurfing into the air on the hands of the crowd...
...realize that their great prosperity machine, a wonder in its day, has run down. Even the best machines - especially the best machines - need regular re-engineering: parts that hummed along in one era get jettisoned in the next. Japan is loath to do that kind of tinkering. Throughout the '90s, with most voters comfortably well-off and complacent, leaders were able to subvert the kind of creative destruction that could have reinvigorated Japan's economic infrastructure. As a result, no entrepreneurial phoenix is rising from Japan's industrial ashes. Real-estate values are at 1982 levels. Manufacturing has been siphoned...
...belief that this quirky, outspoken and handsome politician could somehow save Japan. Koizumi's popularity was unprecedented, his approval ratings consistently hovering at about 80%. If anyone had a mandate to take on the nexus of vested interests and intransigent politicians who had derailed reform throughout the '90s, it was he. But he almost immediately went off track, agreeing to supplementary budgets, endorsing costly bailouts and waffling on banking reform. Then, last month, he dumped his Foreign Minister, Makiko Tanaka, whose bellicose banter and tough stand against prickly bureaucrats made her a popular icon among Japanese housewives. (Her cakes sold...